Rovenstine Greenhouse Quotes

#1. Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

Marcus Aurelius

#2. I'm not afraid of flying; I just fear I'm going to die. I think I'm - vulnerable. I admit it. I don't fly. I got claustrophobia. I don't go in high buildings. I don't do those things. I'm just myself, whatever that is.

John Madden

#3. You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July.

Herman Melville

#4. I'm more of a listener than a talker.

Norman Reedus

#5. All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

Alexander Liberman

#6. When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger chance than I would have if I stayed in the car and burned to death. Hell's bells, what I wouldn't give to have my shield bracelet. Or my old staff. I didn't even have an umbrella.

Jim Butcher

#8. Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.

Chinua Achebe

#9. I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#10. It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

Amber Valletta

#11. The reality of love is better than its reputation.

Nina George

#12. When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

Dick Gregory

#13. There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!

Lennon Parham